Description

Start in the Mcafee's Knob parking lot and take the AT headed towards Dragon's Tooth (not the Dragons Tooth trail).

The Dragon Boulders are a series of protruding, overhanging blades that are a short two minute hike up from the parking off of the Dragon's Tooth Trail. These boulders offer several amazing boulder problems to choose from and are a great destination if you dont want to make the hike to the top of M-Knob. These blades are nice to include for your Roadside circut and the area is a bit quieter (less traffic/hiker distractions). The Dragons are of average height, being not too short and not too tall. Local developers/crushers Truc and Adam climbed most of these lines years ago, hopefully they wont care what Ive called the lines... If so just shoot me a message and fill me in!

Getting There

Start in the Mcafee's Knob parking lot and take the AT headed towards Dragon's Tooth (not the Dragons Tooth trail). You will only walk for about two minutes.

We cleaned out a huge redneck campsite here a couple years ago. We rolled a wheelbarrow up the trail and hauled out a huge load of trash. They abandoned everything, tent, camp chairs, etc. There's actually a decent lowball or two on the right hand set of fins.

Thanks Dave! haha, oh man... Gotta love the necks. I suppose thats where the scorched lower part of the Left Dragon came from huh? Yeah I scoped out the right lowball as well. It looks fun! Thanks for all of the hard work up there, Im sure getting a wheelbarrow up there was no easy task! If there are any names/grades/problems/history here that I can post just let me know. I feel the hillbilly camp clean-up should be added as some history as well.

Yeah, I think what I called lowballs are listed on here as the Middle Dragon. The scorching was definitely from that camp site. There were at least 2 cases of empty Bud Light cans piled up around the base of that thing.

Stuart: Yeah you went WAY further than needed. Walk literally 2-3 min from the parking lot and look way up on the hill to your right. There is no sign for it or peculiar rock to look for. Feel free to go off trail to look for the area, there not too hard to locate. From the trail you will be looking at the back side of all the boulders/steep fins of rock so they will not look very "bouldery" from the trail.

Walk no more than 5 min and back-track to the parking lot in that direction if need be. You'll find them.

Thanks Aaron. I need to look further up the hill than I was I think. By the way glad to hear someone is working to develop the Va area. Im a Roanoke area native and know the state has great potential it just needs a little effort to develop. Keep up the good work and I look forward to the GHSP guide to come out. I want to work to get some more color photos of the Mcafee's area to post on Mtn Project.

Hey Aaron, I found the boulders. I was looking on the Dragons Tooth trail out of the actual parking lot for Dragons Tooth off 311. I didnt realize you still meant the Mcafee's Knob parking lot and you walk south on the Appalachian trail out of the Parking lot. I was wondering if it would be too much to change the directions to say the Mcafee's Knob parking lot not the Dragons tooth lot and its the AT headed towards Dragon's Tooth not the Dragons Tooth trail. I hope I'm not overstepping here. It was very confusing initially reading the directions to figure out where exactly you were talking about. Of course it wont be hard for me to find now but I think it would definitely help others find this spot. And it definitely is a nice hidden gem of a spot with great routes

Thanks again for doing such a great job on working to improve the climbing in Va. Im really looking forward to the climbing community growing in this area and you are doing a great job at encouraging that.